Robert C. Byrd: “I think that we ought to do whatever we can even if it means our eating a little crow.”

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.

In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.

The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.